Everybody in America is has the same constitutional rights but these rights cannot be excercised by a large proportion of the citizens. e.g. everybody has the right to hold political office but in practice you can't become president unless you are a rich white male. White and male may change at some stage but rich never.
2006-08-16 21:41:16 · 5 answers · asked by softenthecorners101 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The laws are on the books. But due to personal vandettas, opinons, preceptions, the practice of the law is distorted. And society doesn't hold the misuse or abuse to task unless they feel to a greater extent, it would spill over to encircle them. A low level dealer is nabbed selling on his corner but is allowed to walk or just slapped on the wrist because the law wants the guy higher up. It the "I will modify it as I see fit, or can get away with" Imagine you are at a football game and a player inadvertantly tried to tackle a person and his pinky hooks the face mask pf the ball carrier for a second, and did not even effect the run. And the refs flag the play and because they don't like the player who they threw the flag on, seek to dish out the most servere punishment they can. But a few plays later during an interception, a player like a Jerry Rice that most like, deliberately snatches the face mask of a player, snapping his neck around, to save a touchdown. Then having the refs either not flag the infraction or if they threw the flag, picked it up, and said "no foul happened", or gave only a 5 yard penalty. How much respect do you think people would have for the officiating or the intergrity of the game? It will be like you can cheat all you wnat if the refs like you and if they don't, you can have the refs rob you of the game by whistling bogus penalties. If you want to have integrity of the law, you carry it out to the letter EVEN if by doing so, you have to allow some people you know are guilty to remain free until you can get better evidence against them. Not just get it by allowing some small fish to walk or offering him a deal to get him to drop a dime.
2006-08-16 23:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One word. Tradition. People never liked change. Stereotypes thrive all the time. Why? because all or more or less True to some extent, the wouldn't exist unless a big majority participated, people simply become upset when one tries to generalize it to a whole group of people without question. There are many people who are very biased and unpleasant, and they don't like other races, they don't like change, and they're very old and orthodox. When a police officer ever stops you, it's because you somehow crossed his personal perceiption radar as "suspicious" which is basically a term meaning, You weren't doing what people usually do, and you shouldn't do it because people usually don't. If you're loitering or relaxing somewhere where people usually do not, you'll get in trouble. They can make up any type of law infringement or create one for you on occassion, if they feel you're not within their personal scope of reason of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable to do. I'm not mad at them, I'm sure it makes things easier to keep peace when they can easily spot the person who isn't doing exactly what everyone else is. The change in behaviour could mean a person is acting suspicious, or perphaps they're just creative; trying to live life to the fullest. I don't see it changing anytime soon, so therefore one piece of advice will be in effect. Do not worry about what you cannot change, and you'll save yourself a lot of unnecessary strife.
2006-08-16 21:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by Answerer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree that the freedoms are not equal throughout the American culture, some people have more rights than others. Not under the law as written but in practice it is obvious. For example a CEO steals millions from the employees at his company and gets 3 months probation. One of those employees steals a thousand from the company and gets 5 years, this is not justice nor the way the laws are written but occurs often in America.
2006-08-16 22:05:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jim C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody is free at the birth, but everybody can't enjoys his freedom in the same way!
I hope it's clear for u!
2006-08-16 22:23:21 · answer #4 · answered by Hélène 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, what's the question?
If you ask if wealth rules the world - Yes, it does!
2006-08-16 21:47:43 · answer #5 · answered by Christos :) 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋